[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#377579: kbd: ACM translation files not supported

[Theppitak Karoonboonyanan]

Package: kbd
Version: 1.12-14
Severity: normal

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I have migrated from console-tools to kbd recently. There seems to
be a compatibility issue.

When trying to set Thai console font for 8-bit applications using 
  setfont tis-phaisarn.f16 -m tis620
command, I got this error:
  mapscrn: cannot open map file _tis620_

In mapscrn.c, this line indicates that the
/usr/share/consoletrans/tis620.acm.gz file from console-data 20060609
won't be searched for:
  static char *mapsuffixes[] = { "", ".trans", "_to_uni.trans", 0 };

By copying tis620.acm.gz to tis620_to_uni.trans.gz, it just works.

So, I wonder whether kbd should also look for the ".acm" files
for backward compatibility, or console-data should also provide the 
".trans" version of existing ".acm" files.

Feel free to reassign this bug to console-data if it's the case.

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16
Locale: LANG=th_TH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=th_TH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages kbd depends on:
ii  console-common             0.7.59        Basic infrastructure for text cons
ii  dpkg                       1.13.22       package maintenance system for Deb
ii  libc6                      2.3.6-15      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  sysvinit                   2.86.ds1-14.1 System-V-like init utilities

Versions of packages kbd recommends:
ii  console-data                  20060609   Keymaps, fonts, charset maps, fall

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